In 1995, Bub closed the original shop, concentrating efforts on the Hope location. The shop is ideally located – on the edge of both the Delaware Water Gap region and Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains resort area – for spectacular three-season riding. If you ride to Tramontin H-D from points nearer New York City, your stress melts away with every mile going west, as the road opens and there’s room to breathe. Bobby Tramontin in front of a family mural showing his father as a baby in the sidecar.
“We call ourselves a destination dealership,” said Bobby. Bub’s son Bobby, who had started riding at the age of four and later traveled the east coast racing the half-mile circuit, was charged with running the new shop while his father kept up the original shop. The area was quite rural then, in fact Route 80 wasn’t even open yet. Today, Tramontin is the oldest Harley dealership in the state of New Jersey with 68 years in the Harley-Davidson fold.īy 1973 Bub had found a piece of property near the Pennsylvania line where he enjoyed riding and decided to open a second shop there, in Hope, N.J.
In 1947 the business became Tramontin H-D, still located where Red’s original shop stood. Gloria and her heritage.īub learned every aspect of the business, from sales to parts to mechanics. She sustained the business through the Depression until Bub took over full-time at just 16-years-old. Tramontin became an Indian dealership at one point, and at one of the factory dealer meetings back then Pierina was the only female shop owner present. It was an endeavor she took to with gusto aided by her son Arthur, a.k.a. An avid rider, Red died in 1928 from injuries sustained when a car driver turned left in front of him (some things never change) leaving his widow Pierina to run the shop. Red Tramontin started Lexington Cycle Shop as an Excelsior-Henderson dealership.
That fact allowed Tramontin H-D to pop the champagne in celebration of 100 years of motorcycling for the family in 2015, a milestone few can claim. No, it’s not housed in a historical building or part of an urban renewal project this dealership’s history reaches back to the bright, early days of American motorcycling, touting a family connection to Ernest “Red” Tramontin’s first motorcycle shop in Clifton, N.J., established in 1915. That’s why it’s so refreshing to find a place like Tramontin Harley-Davidson/Honda in Hope, N.J. The landscape often looks so homogenized it’s hard to tell where you are. So much of experience these days is speckled with the same corporate logos, the same restaurants, the same highway markers.
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